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...talks quickened last week, the two sides remained far apart. GM and Ford delivered initial proposals that made scant reference to either guaranteed job security or wage hikes, two key worker issues. Complained Stephen Yokich, the U.A.W. chief Ford bargainer: "We're not playing in the same ballpark." In response, the U.A.W. executive board declared both GM and Ford to be potential strike targets, holding open the option of later zeroing in on one firm if bargaining strategy so dictated. Pulling workers off the assembly lines at even a single company could prove costly; when the U.A.W...
...feel tike I have lost a friend," said David Provence, who in order to see the Games had taken off two weeks from his job as an industrial water-sprinkler installer. "I wouldn't mind going to Seoul in four years." In the manner of a beloved old ballpark being stripped for demolition, disposable slabs of vermilion and magenta will soon go on sale in a gigantic flea market. The saddest figure in Los Angeles was the honored policeman who wanted to be a hero or at least to be noticed by his superiors. Officer James W. Pearson...
That love of the game is what comes across in Lee's autobiography. The Wrong Stuff. For 12 years Lee was the Red Sox and Expos' goofy left-hander who quoted Einstein and Kurt Vonnegut in post game interviews and jogged along. Storrow Drive to the ballpark For him, playing baseball was a way of getting paid for having fun. His enemies are the managers, owners, commissioners and writers who want to corrupt the game and steal...
...knockout punch" left Harvard reeling, and the Crimson wasn't ready when it had to go against Seton Hall again just 20 minutes after watching 11 1/2 innings work sail out of the ballpark. Harvard committed a season-high eight errors and lost, 9-1, dropping to third in the Northeast and 28-6 overall...
...Alexander dwells far too much on what happened between the foul lines rather than the action outside the ballpark. He paints an engrossing picture of a game in transition from the dead-ball era of stolen bases to the Ruthian age of the homerun, but never really shows the effects this had on baseball as a business, except to detail the contract feuds between Cobb and Tiger owner Frank Navin. He portrays Cobb as an ugly racist, but doesn't ever explore what Cobb thought about the desegregation of the game after he retired. Answering these questions might have provided...